DPAA Recovery Operations in India
Members from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), excavate in Arunachal Pradesh, India during the search and recovery efforts to retrieve eight US Army Air Corps members that went down with the aircraft in 1942. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to identify unaccounted-for Americans from past conflicts in order to support the Department of Defense's personnel accounting efforts. (DoD photo by SSgt Erik Cardenas/U.S. Air Force)